Hi Guys
During this cold spell were having, 'my' birds are eating me out of house and home. :D
Ive seen a few threads now talking about bird pastry, could anyone give me the recipie on how to do it please. I'm abit of a novice of making my own foods for birds :)
Cheers
Hi Solaaris
I expect people's recipes will vary somewhat but here's what I use.
Two thirds dry ingredients to one third fat by weight. The fat can be lard or beef suet as long as it doesn't contain salt.
The dry ingredients can be all flour or as I do a mixture of flour, blitzed sunflower hearts and blitzed peanuts.
Blend the dry ingredients (using a food processor or mixer if you've got one) until it resembles breadcrumbs and then add a small amount of water until it just comes together but is firm and not too sticky. Rest it in the fridge until it firms up.
I usually roll it into a cylinder before putting it into the fridge so it fits into a mesh feeder but you can fashion it into ant shape you want.
The birds love it as you can see below. Good luck.
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Hello Salaaris, my pastry mix is half fat to flour, to that add anything that you may fancy, blitzed nuts, suet, sunflower hearts, grated cheese, chopped fruit, raisins, sultanas or even some bird seed. I buy supermarket own brand fat and flour. You can shape to fit feeders or simply take of small pieces and wrap around branches. Sit back and wait, but beware once they find it, it disappears very quickly. Some on this forum make ?? KG to try and keep up with demand!!
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